Gilded Age Review

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These unsafe and unclean buildings were created to be rented to as many immigrant/poor families as possible

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Tenements

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Who created the Hull House? What group was it created to help?

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Jane Addams; Immigrants

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Feelings of fear or suspicions around immigrants because of their different ethnicities, religions, and cultural beliefs and practices.

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Nativism

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This law established the first limits (quotas) on immigration for a particular group of immigrants.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act

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During the late 1800s, laissez-faire economic policies

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Placed very few restrictions on how businesses were run

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In the late 1800s, which group of immigrants experienced the most discrimination? Options: Irish, Chinese, German, Eastern European

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Chinese

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19th century Chinese immigrants are known for what?

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Work in building the Transcontinental Railroad

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During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

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Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.

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Why did immigrants in late nineteenth century America establish their own separate neighborhoods, such as New York's Little Italy and San Francisco's Chinatown?

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They did so in order to continue practicing the traditions that they brought over from their home countries.

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Which of the following caused the most prejudice against new immigrants in the United States during the late nineteenth century? Americans believed that immigrants were transient and would hurt the communities when they moved on again., The United States had tense relations with many of the nations from which the immigrants came., Heavy immigration caused overcrowding in rural areas and a rise in the price of cropland., Americans feared that immigrants would refuse to assimilate into American culture.

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Americans feared that immigrants would refuse to assimilate into American culture.